On Wednesday 18 August 2004 12:10 pm, nyal wrote: I've had a thought but I'm not sure if I'm on the right track.....
I'm thinking that if I add: none /mnt/cdorm supermount rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,dev=/dev/cdrom,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1, codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 things might be hunkydory? If so, does it matter where I put the line in mtab? As I said before, I'm learning and I'm trying! Thanks all, Nyal R. Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Greetings all, > > First off, I send a THANK YOU to everyone that helped me out with my CD > BURNER question. It's working great and it's great to know that there are > people out there that still remember that they once were where I am now.... > > Do have another question..... > > Add a CD ROM to make burning a bit easier. The CDROM shows up on my > desktop as being mounted at /mnt/cdrom. I've tried to use it to view files > on a CD but no luck. Thought I'd try to unmount/remount it but when I did > I get the message: > > umount: /mnt/cdrom is not mounted (according to mtab) > > > Looking at mtab I see the following: > > /dev/hda1 / ext3 rw 0 0 > none /proc proc rw 0 0 > none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 > none /dev devfs rw 0 0 > none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /home ext3 rw 0 0 > none /mnt/floppy supermount > rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,cod >epage=850,umask=0 0 0 > > The error msg leads me to believe that I need to add a line to mtab to > mount the CDROM but I don't know what it should be! Tried a Google search > but couldn't find anything relevant. RTFM and got even more confused! > > I'm learning slow but sure so if anyone has some relevant and sage advice I > would truly appreciate it. > > Thanks, > Nyal R. Cammack > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Called up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms regional office and asked, "What wine goes best with an M-16?" The guy who answered did his best to be helpful: "That depends. What are you smoking?" _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
